electricsheepafrica/africa-libya-libya-real-time-prices-5f318290

Libya - Real Time Prices | Africa (Libya official open data)

781,328 rows - 1 Africa country - 2017-2026 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Libya as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Libya - Real Time Prices
• Publisher: World Bank Group
• Resource: Real Time Food Prices for Libya
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
LBY	781,328	2017	2026	Libya

Indicators or Resource Contents

• libya-real-time-prices-lat-a85cc7f0 - Libya - Real Time Prices - lat
• libya-real-time-prices-lon-1729d9df - Libya - Real Time Prices - lon
• libya-real-time-prices-month-41834d47 - Libya - Real Time Prices - month
• libya-real-time-prices-data-coverage-0249c0ff - Libya - Real Time Prices - data coverage
• libya-real-time-prices-data-coverage-recent-0f9b958d - Libya - Real Time Prices - data coverage recent
• libya-real-time-prices-index-confidence-score-6d94baea - Libya - Real Time Prices - index confidence score
• libya-real-time-prices-spatially-interpolated-19253ec0 - Libya - Real Time Prices - spatially interpolated
• libya-real-time-prices-beans-f63221df - Libya - Real Time Prices - beans
• libya-real-time-prices-beans-fao-d80c228a - Libya - Real Time Prices - beans fao
• libya-real-time-prices-bread-c24e29f3 - Libya - Real Time Prices - bread
• libya-real-time-prices-chickpeas-62409312 - Libya - Real Time Prices - chickpeas
• libya-real-time-prices-chili-ab357127 - Libya - Real Time Prices - chili
• libya-real-time-prices-couscous-0784cae8 - Libya - Real Time Prices - couscous
• libya-real-time-prices-eggs-7081cec1 - Libya - Real Time Prices - eggs
• libya-real-time-prices-fish-tuna-canned-60c7709d - Libya - Real Time Prices - fish tuna canned
• libya-real-time-prices-meat-chicken-3049d3dc - Libya - Real Time Prices - meat chicken
• libya-real-time-prices-meat-lamb-9e63f12d - Libya - Real Time Prices - meat lamb
• libya-real-time-prices-milk-75a161e2 - Libya - Real Time Prices - milk
• libya-real-time-prices-oil-728c46fe - Libya - Real Time Prices - oil
• libya-real-time-prices-onions-845113a5 - Libya - Real Time Prices - onions

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	libya-real-time-prices-lat-a85cc7f0
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Libya - Real Time Prices - lat
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	LBY
country_name	string	Country name.	Libya
year	Int64	Observation year.	2017
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	32.87
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_iso3	string	Source dimension.	LBY
dimension_country	string	Source dimension.	Libya
dimension_adm1_name	string	Source dimension.	West
dimension_adm2_name	string	Source dimension.	Tripoli
dimension_mkt_name	string	Source dimension.	Abusliem
dimension_geo_id	string	Source dimension.	gid_328700000132300000
dimension_dates	string	Source dimension.	2017-01-01
dimension_currency	string	Source dimension.	LYD
dimension_components	string	Source dimension.	beans (400 G, Index Weight = 10), beans_fao (400 gms, Index Weight = 0.0
dimension_start_dense_data	string	Source dimension.	Jan 2017
dimension_last_survey_point	string	Source dimension.	May 2026
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	World Bank Group
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Libya - Real Time Prices
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Real Time Food Prices for Libya
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	b7428d22-ad0d-40c4-ab51-a43d5041fc23
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	d268ee9b-0f62-4a5d-bd75-9f41e055c11b
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/b7428d22-ad0d-40c4-ab51-a43d5041fc23/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-17T13:13:43Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-libya-libya-real-time-prices-5f318290")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "LBY"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_libya_libya_real_time_prices_5f318290_2026,
  title        = {Libya - Real Time Prices | Africa (Libya official open data)},
  author       = {World Bank Group},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/libya-real-time-prices},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-libya-libya-real-time-prices-5f318290}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) World Bank Group. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-08-17 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/b7428d22-ad0d-40c4-ab51-a43d5041fc23/resource/d268ee9b-0f62-4a5d-bd75-9f41e055c11b/download/real-time-food-prices-for-libya.csv